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(2007) attempted to help second grade students assimilate the new information they
learned by utilizing Talking Drawings. In this study, students were asked to draw a
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The researchers found there were some students who really enjoyed the project and learned a lot from it and those who completed it just for the grade. The researchers suggested that the project was most beneficial if the student could really...

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weekends at home. It probably was in the fall of those same years I learned that dazzling orange Oriental Poppies should be transplanted while dormant in August. A subscription to the magazine Better Homes...

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get an idea about the topic. The students, using the pictures as guides, make predictions
about the text and its contents. Just as picture walks are associated with narrative text,
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serene resignation that life's journey is about to end, has not thought about the eternal destination and what might be there? Centuries ago the man Job, so long blessed with material blessings, only to find...

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research in the 1970s . . . claim[ed] that students can learn grammar simply by writing" (Vavra, 1996, p. 32), but there was no evidence to support that from Vavra’s study.
In response to that research, Vavra asks, "Where is the research study...

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in each class every day. The type of talking that was done in the district school was far from being public speaking, but it at least helped me to think and reason before other people. When I was well...

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won both debates. After several more contests we were again eligible to enter the state meet. The state contest was my last debate in high school. I was determined to do my best to win, but was defeated by the...

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High school graduation should not be the end of the line for students; and educators should be assisting in curbing that effect. The at-risk students at SEA are so focused on making up missing credits that thoughts for the...

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provides them with choices to enhance it. If students must see grammar as a set of choices, then that takes out the teacher’s error-finding device which is usually the red pen. If the red pen is taken out of the system then the teacher and the...

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in the personal goal setting. The instructor documented any changes to individual students on their goal sheets as well as talking verbally with the student alone. Any necessary medical changes or modifications were recorded on the individual...

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happy and agreeable." Naturally, one of the favorite family activities was when John and Orpha would take the children for ice cream cones. John would always get a lick at each of the cones to keep it from...

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Vocabulary struggles are hard enough for many native English students but for ELLs the struggle becomes more difficult, particularly for those students who enter school for the first time at a higher grade. Many times it looks as if students are...

According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....

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The Boy Scouts were already established in my home town. I went to several of their meetings. The scout master would do most of the talking, while all the boys listened. I liked the things the Boy Scouts did. I enjoyed playing their...

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been there to his Maker, his Heavenly Father, and received a judgment. You will remember when the Christ was on the cross and the two thieves who had been crucified at the same time were talking, one condemned the Savior and the...

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allowing ourselves to become an integrated part of your team, saving you a seat at the lunch table and splitting milkshakes on the boardwalk” (2013). This approach to gain likeability is aimed at leveling with the consumer...

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advertisements or commercials here. We get companies featured editorially. So, how do we do it? Hey, we won’t give away all our secrets. But we start with a roster of media contacts that are unmatched – from magazine editors...